> > *On Debian 8 and later, this usually means that you do not have the "boot > bit" set on the card.* >
No . ..as I said. It means there is an older bootloader on the emmc. If you remove the bootloader, said problem goes away. On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Graham Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > It should automatically boot from the card without having to push the boot > button. > On Debian 8 and later, this usually means that you do not have the "boot > bit" set on the card. > > If you created the card by installing the resident version of Debian, then > expanding the partition, the "boot bit" should already be set. > > If you created the card some other way, then put it in a Linux desktop, > and run Gparted. Go into the option-menus and manually set the boot bit. > It should then automatically boot, whenever you apply power to the BBB. > > There is probably some other way to manually edit the card and set the > bit, but I find Gparted very easy to use. > > I am running a BBG as a SoftEther VPN server and it works fine. No need > to push buttons to get it to boot. > > --- Graham > > == > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:14 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Graham (or anyone who knows....): >> > I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all >> running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I >have to hold the button >> every time I power it up. >> The reason for this is that you have an older bootloader on the emmc. You >> can change this behavior if you wish. BY two differnt method I personally >> am aware of. >> >> >Can you tell me how to get this all into the eMMC memory? I don't use >> any >video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate >those features from the >> Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there >would be room for >> Softether as well in the eMMC. >> > Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie >> >> You download and put a flasher image onto an sdcard. Instead of a >> standalone image. >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Graham (or anyone who knows....): >>> I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all >>> running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I have to hold the button >>> every time I power it up. Can you tell me how to get this all into the eMMC >>> memory? I don't use any video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate those >>> features from the Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there would >>> be room for Softether as well in the eMMC. >>> Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 10:18:44 AM UTC-4, Graham wrote: >>>> >>>> You never said how you are running the BBB. >>>> If you are running without a video display, local or remote, then you >>>> don't need about half of what is in the full package. >>>> Then you could load a minimum "console" package, which will only fill >>>> 1.7G of your 4 G eMMC, then add in what else you need to run your >>>> application. >>>> So, you would have about 2 GB of play space. >>>> >>>> If you have a video display you are better off going with the full >>>> package.. >>>> >>>> --- Graham >>>> >>>> == >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:27:27 AM UTC-5, blues man wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, Graham! I'll just use my 64G uSD card, expand the file >>>>> system, and go back to JRMC on Debian. I guess the older images didn't >>>>> fill the eMMC, so I still had room for JRMC - but the latest one tipped >>>>> the >>>>> scale too far. 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